Trendy Fascism

Nancy S. Love is Professor of Political Science and Humanities Council Coordinator at Appalachian State University. She is the author of Musical Democracy and coeditor (with Mark Mattern) of Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics, both also published by SUNY Press.

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Mobilizing White Power: Music, Culture, and Politics2. Playing with Hate: Racist Skinheads, Skrewdriver, and Liberal Tolerance3. Imagining A White Nation: Neo-Nazi Folk, Family Values, and Prussian Blue4. Building A Church: Rahowa, Heavy Metal, and Racial Ecology5. Recycling White Trash: Aesthetics, Music, and DemocracyEpilogue Notes Bibliography Index

"…timely and important … Love provides new ways to situate and understand white-power music, its fans, and its practitioners, as well as the strength it has in both drawing on and influencing mainstream culture and politics." — American Music"While Love's book displays the rigor of serious research, her prose permits those of us who may not be as familiar with the theorists she cites to fully appreciate her thesis. Love's exhaustive critique takes the reader from how the white supremacist is mobilizing music through avenues of 'hate' to the lyrical depictions of an imagined 'white nation.' … Love's book is timely and an important work to make sense of how today's fascists have made significant use of song and lyric to attract youth." — Truthout"Trendy Fascism has the potential to unsettle how theorists of democracy frame their most basic assumptions in the study of politics. The case studies of white power music are indeed unsettling, and at times they will bring chills to the reader. But, as Love argues, we must confront the realities of and rationalizations for the often-disavowed transnational white supremacist communities and networks in our political present if we are serious about overturning the racial contract pervading late modern states." — Neil Roberts, Williams College